Northern Lights over Torch Lake

They are fantastic. I am desolate at having missed the show. Every time that happens I vow to change my sleeping habits so as to be out and about at night, a sort of blogging bat.

It is very dark here, especially in the winter, except when the moon shines on snow. There are millions and millions of stars.

The Northern Lights are as unpredictable as they are beautiful. They come, they do their sinuous dance, they leave, taking our breath away with them. But come visit anyway–you are bound to see something worth traveling far to see.

Maybe we will have to wait until we can take a space shuttle ride. Wouldn’t that be something? Watching the auroras from space.

I gather they were pretty vivid all across North America last night. I would have liked to see them, yes indeed.

Just an interesting little sidelight for those not from Around Here–a bit of southern Ontario curves south and west along the Detroit River. We can properly claim that Michigan is north of Canada, thus confounding everyone.

Really. Cross my heart and hope to live long enough to see them again myself.

I say we get an expedition together and spend a week camping out on the Keweenaw. There must be hundreds of Desolate Northerners who would like to do that. OK, maybe just dozens, but dozens would be good.

You can come on the expedition to the Keweenaw, Charlotte.

Miss Sadie did send me bat signals. She woofed at me and stared at me significantly with that Get Up! look she has and I rolled over and ignored her. Serves me right.

If you count the paler version, we see them fairly often out in the country. I’ve seen those waving over Stone Circle on more than one occasion. Ones as colorful as this are fairly rare even this far north. I remember seeing pink and green ones in northern Wisconsin when I was a child, but only once or maybe twice. Rob the Firefighter and the Lady Alicia were on vacation with a group of friends in the Keweenaw a few years back and saw some spectacular ones. The closer you get to the poles the better chance you have to see them. Another reason for traveling north of Superior.

You’ll never have all the time and money at the same time. I advise you to go while you’re still young enough to enjoy an adventure on a shoestring. Heck, I’m still young enough to enjoy adventures on shoestrings. Stop by and pick me up–I’ll go with.

There is a certain comfort to be had from hearing that I am not the only one who missed the show right outside her own cozy nest. Definitely better to have photos by Babs than no vision at all, eh?